The title was Soaring Toward Summer. We made hot air balloons where the children colored a 2-sided balloon and then we attached that with twine/yarn to a Pringles singles cup as the basket. The finishing touch was pictures of the students waving that we printed and glued to the baskets. Not a traditional board because we hung them on clothesline across the room, but very cute. And fun to make..

I seem to be having a summer "brain freeze" and I cannot think of ANY of my catchy titles...!!! I had a really cute owl theme last year. My job chart said "Look Whooooo's Helping". (BTW, OWLS= Organized, Working, Learning, Students) Does this count???

This is an adorable idea! I have a pirate theme so I've done "Ahoy first grade mateys, welcome aboard." to decorate my classroom window. I've also done "Look At These Landlubbers!" with telescopes & pictures of my students. Another one is "Arrgh you ready for a great year?" & I have the kids make pirates to hang up with writing about what they want to learn in 1st grade.LisaLearning Is Something to Treasure

I love that one! I usually do t-shirts in the line (with cute mini clothespins from a craft store) and it says "look who's hanging out with Mrs. Rubin". One year I even had their heads popping out of the shirts from the pictures I took of them before school was over (We have a step-up day where we meet our new kiddos). AngieWww.rulintheroost.blogspot.com(sorry for any typos... I'm on vacation and typing from my phone and it's not cooperating!!!)

Each fall, above my book area, I put a big tree with arms coming out reading a book. Leaves on the tree are falling and the title says, "Fall into a good book!" I wonder if I can figure out how to post a picture on here.....

Love your back to school BB idea. I have done "We're On a Learning Safari". I made a copy of a jeep for each student and on meet the teacher day/first day of school took a head shot of students with a safari hat on, cut the pictures out and put in the drivers seat-turned out very cute.Ms Jones Junction

I did one last year with autumn leaves falling from a big tree and on each leaf was a story of what each student was looking forward to in the upcoming winter. I titled it "Falling into Winter" and it actually looked pretty cool!

I am going to use a carnival theme this year and put a big ferris wheel up with the kids names on them and the caption will say "up, Up, and Away with our Hopes and Dreams! Then I will add their hopes and dreams on carnival theme cards.

Last year, I handed each kid a paint chip from Home Depot with graduated colors on it. You know? Then they were to take a BORING verb (say, talk, etc.) and write it on the most boring (lightest) color. As the colors got bolder, so did their synonyms. When they were done, I hung them on a bulletin board with simple letters: Say What?!?!

I've done a few I really like.My first year I did, We are Coco"NUTS" about 4th grade with a palm tree and monkey. I put the kids names on all of the palm trees. I've also done the t-shirst, but wrote, "Hanging in 4th Grade". :)

Last year I made a display in the hallway outside our classroom that said, Everyone Blooms in Second Grade. I made a garden full of flowers and used pipe cleaners for the stems. I wrote the students' names on the flowers. After I took it down, I wrapped the flowers around fancy pencils and put them in a flower box that said, Look Who's Bloomed Another Year! When a student had a birthday, they took their pencil from the box.

I use a popcorn border, a few scattered 3-d popcorn boxes, and a 2-d popcorn box and popcorn piece with each student's name on the box. My phrase is: Look who popped into first grade! Then at our back to school open house, I serve popcorn and punch.Mollymollymm77@hotmail.com

So cute! One year I did a football board that said "our game plan for a great year" i had about 6 big footballs that had some goals for a good year and then had students write their own goal for the new school year on a smaller football.

"SMILE, you're in first grade!!"Talk about friendship on the first week of school and the kiddos make their face out of construction paper with big white smiles! Super cute!❤ SandraSweet Times in Firstsweettimesinfirst@gmail.com

Obviously you are way younger than I am...done so many I can't remember! "Great bunch" with names on bananas and a large monkey; "fresh batch of second graders" with names on chocolate chip cookies (complete with cookie sheet/spatula); ___ has the recipe for success (with recipe card filled out) and "look whooo is in grade 2" with adorable owls I spent forever making! You name it; I've done it!

I often use the t-shirt theme..."Look who is hanging out in 6th grade!"

I cut t-shirts out of plain white construction paper and let the students decorate them with their favorite things. This is usually done the first day of school. Then they are laminated and hung in the hall on a clothes line.

Each year we decorate our classroom door. Last year I found mini ipods and wrote each kiddos name on it.. then wrote "i-learn in Kindergarten" Super cute! We have done "look who was spotted in Kindergarten" with each name on a different colored circle. Of course, the popcorn cutouts and "look who popped in!" I love super easy but super cute!!

Using the "have you filled a bucket today" book, I made little buckets for each student and the board said "Miss Plott's bucket fillers"

I have had an owl bulletin board that said "whhoooo's excited for 2nd grade" with little owlets having a party :)

I think I am most excited about my idea for this year.... Using your "this year was out of this world" packet.... I loved the writing pages that my students made so much, that I decided to keep them and I am going to hang them in the wall with a sign that says "find out why 2nd grade is out of this world!" and I will put up the writing pages, and put my new students names on rockets or planets

Cute! One I've done is "Wel-gum to ___ Grade!" with a large bubblegum machine. I put all the kids names on the bubblegum inside the machine and my name and our room number on bubblegum coming out of the machine.

I love your blog!! Super cute and all of your ideas are so helpful and useful in the classroom!

As for bulletin boards, this year I put one up that said "we've caught the reading bug", and had each child's writing about their favorite book, and their picture. There was a bug in the middle of the board, and they did their writing on bug jar shaped templates. I wish I could take credit for all that, but I got the idea from a Mailbox magazine!

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I've done one in the past that was football themed, since football begins right around school time. It said "Let's Kick Off to A New Year" I made two goal posts and a football field and then put their names all glittery on individual flying footballs. I added a few football players and cheerleaders and it was precious!

Together we make one great... TEAM! The letters in TEAM are puzzle pieces that students illustrate what they are good at. Then they work together to piece the puzzle together spelling it out.scairo4@gmail.com

I have also used T-shirts on a back to school bulletin board. My title for the bulletin board was "What a winning line up" over top a clothesline of T-shirts. I have also used a bee theme and used "who will bee in Mrs Hermer's grade 1?"

Last year, I had a construction theme in my class. I had plastic construcion hats used as hall passes, the "kids at work" banners, and various traffic signs (stop and read, quiet zone, etc.) My board was simple: "Under Construction" with a saw horse and oversized tools. I left it up in the hall all year long and just changed out the writing/art because, well, it was "Under Construction."

Hi,Cute idea! We are a Leader in Me school so i am going to be doing a bulletin board with each habit for the seven habits. Of course with the kids help. To start with I am using Hadar's Ant craftivity with the saying, "Anticipating a Year with Great Leaders.Kris

I have done tshirts for the past two years as my beginning of the year bulletin board. I give the kids a blank tshirt on the first or second day of school and then have each of them make/color a design on their tshirt. Then is slap a label on it with their name and hang it on the rope that is already up on the bullentin board. I hang it with a clothes pin and the title of my board is called "Hanging out in first grade". The first year I made it, I made a laundry basket at the bottom of the board with some tshirt already in it. But last year I didn't do that and just hung the tshirts. Then I made my job board out of patterned designs that I made and hung them in the front of the room. And I made the kiddos locker names tags different primary colored tshirts with their names on them. It was really cute, but I decided to do something different this year. I should find the pictures of mine and show you!

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